So I reverted it in the add-on for now. Back to standard UK English. I'm in the process of working on another Alpha that will begin to add a few languages: focusing on Hungarian, English, Polish, Spanish first. Let's get a few languages right and see where we get.
The driver itself is working fine. So that's the good news. We get speech, we get firing indexes, we have all the weird knobs exposed in your voice dialog settings too. So like, yes. As far as a working, solid driver, I actually think that part was the easiest. The hardest is actually modernizing it a bit to support more languages and eventually, very much later on in the game, not rely on Espeak for phoneme data directly. I don't know what license though Espeak has: Are we able to pull phoneme tables from it directly with just attribution, or must the entire Espeak sourcecode be included? This will be good to verify.
yep. Original NVSpeech Player was also british. For this to even support US English, it needs to have proper IPA mapping and data.py to include how the letters actually get sounded out from those phoonemes Espeak is injecting for us. So first task: Rewrite data.py and IPA.py for NVSpeech Player to have better multilingual support in the first place.
ahahahahaha ok. Yeah, for this to support multilingualness it will definitely need more than just espeeak variant codes. the actual IPA tables need updating for that sort of thing, interesting.
Hello. If you miss the sound of NVSpeech Player, it's been modernized for NVDA 2025.3. This is alpha days, like, it speaks in British English for now, but we're getting there. The goal will be eventually to decouple more of the phoneme generation from Espeak, but this is just revising a lot of the old driver. enjoy. eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025âŚ
@TomGrant91 @mckensie @Aryan well, you love playing with sliders, if you want to know as a fun fact, it exposes 47 different sliders you can tune around how the voice sounds, but be careful, they're also very, very easy to break. LOL.
Hey #GitLab â it's sad you stopped sending me notification mails 2 weeks ago (but understandable, as our mail server had a hickup then).
It's sadder you didn't pick up even 2 weeks after the issue was solved, and not even when I changed my email address in your setup.
But it's plainly incomprehensible that, not having a paid subscription, I can't even find a way to reach out to you and inform you or ask your help with this.
For those falling into the same trap: it's not enough to change your email in the "profile" section of settings. You also need to do that under "Notifications", in the "Global notification email" drop-down.
Not that intuitive I'd say: if (in profile) you replaced exactly that address, you probably want the new one being used INSTEAD â and not just have it "verified"âŚ
First notification email just arrived đ Still: support? đ¤
I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.
I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at firstâbut I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movieâsince she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).
Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).
But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.
How about Middlemarch, by George Elliot? (It's a pseudonym, the author was a woman.) It has interesting history and politics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiddlemaâŚ
Hear me out. Cat CafĂŠ x Coworking. Like a classic coworking space but with cats laying around.
I have my own homegrown cat for day use, but I would be willing to go to your in prem meeting if I could at least pet some support cats during your whatever slides.
Interview: "Datenschutz schßtzt die Schwächeren gegenßber mächtigen Akteuren"
Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er fßr Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.
Today I heavily argued with a Hosting and VPS provider called IONOS; there's the domain ionos.com which brings to American site and there's no accessibility statement in that page. On the Italian though, ionos.it, on its footer I found an accessibility statement claiming this company took care of disability needs. It was very affordable. For 10 euro per month or so, I could obtain the Linux VPS L plan, with something like 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM and 240 GB storage. I don't remember if it's exactly the amount of the offer but now I'm not talking about service's details. Attracted by the offer I have subscribed to it and the products presentation and e-commerce procedure was actually accessible for screen reader users; but as soon as I has the service in hand, control panel and especially firewall rules, inaccessibility came. As an example, on a single firewall rule, the edit button was labelled with "y", the add with a "@" sign, the delete with a "]" (closed squared bracket) sign. First thing I did was going to that accessibility page. There was no specialized e-mail for that kind of support but they linked to a contact form. Clicked on it, it redirected me to a German-speaking page. Last time I spoke German was 1999. And what did I find there? Phone numbers and a live-chat with German automated answers but nothing on accessibility. I called them (Italian support) and warned them about the issue, they've been polite with me. I admit I've been quite unkind though, as I was angry. But I managed to obtain contract cancellation and they'll refund me tomorrow. But this issue must not remain under silence. What I'm asking is to all Ionos customers all over the world, to make them aware of this. It hasn't to pass under silence as this habit of placing a declaration without concretely working on accessibility, is becoming more and more normalized. They find more convenience in violating the laws and losing customers, than create a real remediation. And there are many faults for this: companies do their own interests, with no doubt. But our fault as people with disability, not to have stood up too much for the cause, or standing up in the wrong way. Not to have pressured governments about investing on LEARNING more than "tou must create accessible sites". You must create, but how many 30-40 years old developers have the culture of accessibility in mind? How many companies and school have a real decades-long accessibility learning program? No one wants to mock disability I'm convinced of this. But this practice is due to lack of basic awareness. We can not pretend of nothing. I'm not inviting anyone to boycott. But to create awareness. #accessibility #advocacy #awareness #blind #disability #SelfHost #SelfHosting
âWhen you advertise on Mozillaâs Firefox and MDN Web Docs, youâll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, theyâll trust you.â
Ich brauche eure Hilfe: FĂźr eine Recherche Ăźber Algorithmen von Dating-Apps suche ich Kontakt zu Entwickler:innen und anderen, die bei solchen Anbietern arbeiten/gearbeitet haben und bereit wären, mit mir zu sprechen. Gerne auch anonym. Fragestellung ua: Mit welchen Mechanismen werden User:innen auf der Plattform gehalten? Welche Ideen/Konstrukte von Partnerschaft/Matching stecken im Algorithmus? Bitte teilt das breit! Dankeâ¤ď¸ Anonyme und andere KontaktmĂśglichkeiten: s. Bio. #dating
Zum 12. Januar 2026 wurde bekannt, dass der Schweizer Anbieter eines Instant-Messengers, Threema, durch die Investmentfirma Comitis Capital GmbH ĂźbernommenâŚ
we need to make alternatives like #DeltaChat more popular, it is decentralized and people can migrate from server to server without losing their messages, chats or contacts, in fact your contacts don't even get disturbed by your migration, your data is really owned by you and you are not tied to a particular server, we need more software like this
what is more, it has offline-first in-chat mini-apps that can replace several online centralized services
there is also an anonymous Forum/social network inside Delta Chat I can invite you to
besides that, you can actually have a LOT of fun alone in Delta Chat! you have a "Saved Messages" chat that you can use for saved notes across as many devices as you want, it also has in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, time-tracking, etc. that you can send in Saved Messages, they will sync across devices
"Ich meine SÜder ist ja nicht nur kÜrperlich behindert, auch manchmal geistig [...]. Aber wir lassen ihn leben, er ist ja immer mal wieder witzig." - Emil Sänze, Co-Landeschef der AfD BW
Mehr Menschenverachtung passt kaum in zwei Sätze. Und was, wenn SÜder nicht "immer mal wieder witzig" wäre?
âTotalverweigererâ ist kein Begriff aus dem Sozialrecht. Mit diesem Ausdruck kann keine sachliche Diskussion gefĂźhrt werden. Er drĂźckt Menschen einen abwertenden Stempel auf und schĂźrt negative Emotionen. Sanktionen betreffen Menschen, die etwa âzumutbareâ Arbeit ohne âanerkanntenâ Grund ablehnen. Betroffene kĂśnnen nicht mehr frei Ăźber ihr Leben entscheiden weil sie arm sind. Es droht der Ausschluss aus der Gesellschaft, der Verlust der Wohnung, RechtlosigkeitâŚ
AWS verspricht jetzt ÂťSouveränitätÂŤ mit einem ÂťeuropäischenÂŤ Cloud-Angebot â Standort Deutschland, groĂes Vertrauens-Theater.
Nur: Souveränität ist keine Postleitzahl. Wenn der Anbieter Amazon heiĂt, bleibt es dasselbe Märchen mit neuem Umschlag: Der Cloud Act, FISA etc. gilt trotzdem. US-Recht schlägt Geografie. Das Gerede von ÂťSouveränitätÂŤ ist kein Konzept, sondern Marketing.
the main problem is the *signal*. Signals are super annoying when doing layered software, when doing threads and more. Ignoring signals is expensive (and annoying for a library).
I would leave it as just an error when doing I/O. Like so many other errors that can occur.
Meanwhile, we have now added 4 lines of code for every line of code still remaining in #curl
This means that on average, every single line of production code has been touched four times. Written once, then updated three more times. And yeah, some lines of course many more times than average, and some less so.
To get this number, we count how many lines of code we have added up to a point in time, ignore how many we removed, and then divide with the number of lines of code still there.
@pavel vzhledem k tomu, ze podobny veci uz delal a resil a vsechno byla "kampan", tak se nediv ze jim to nevadi, kdyz mu to vsechno sezrali. Pocitam ze ty miliardy budeme muset vratit tak jako tak (nebo jsme je uz vratili) ... Mozna tak maximalne kdyby se za kazdym slo a chtelo se po nich penize na ruku, at to vrati pomerove (7mld na 10mil obyvatel ...), tak by trosku drzkovali, ale jejich spasitel by to za ne zacaloval ze statni kasy, takze by je zase "zachranil" i kdyz to stejne zaplati ...
GenerĂĄlnĂ Ĺeditel LesĹŻ ÄeskĂŠ republiky Dalibor Ĺ afaĹĂk konÄĂ, z funkce ho odvolal ministr zemÄdÄlstvĂ Martin Ĺ ebestyĂĄn. DĹŻvodem je podle ĹĄĂŠfa resortu podĂl podniku na zvyĹĄovĂĄnĂ cen dĹeva za Ĺ afaĹĂkova pĹŻsobenĂ.
Tak ono to nebylo uplne neocekavatelne. Tahle vlada ma jen tri ukoly. Rozdat kresla tem zakomplxovanym neumetelum co tam jsou, vytahat co nejvic dotaci (pokud mozno tak, aby je zaplatil stat a to ze je Evropa neproplati se bude hazet na zlou EU) a hlavne ty dva, mozna uz brzo tri NEVYDAT spravedlnosti. A v tomhle trojboji to bude celych 5 let
I'm looking for an application where I can quickly colaborate on short otes with someone. MS Word/Google Docs and all that stuff would be overhead. Just give me a web application people can type in and it auto updates for everyone, so everyone can look at text without people doing dumb screen shares which leaves out people with no vision. The closest I could get is Joplin, but for a short dumping down some text it's just overhead to configure an account on my Joplin server, have the other person setup the app etc...
Es geht um das Fediverse-typische Herrklären und technische-Ăberlegenheit-raushängen-lassen und um einen Kommentar, der mein inneres Fass zum Ăberlaufen brachte.
UsĹyszaĹem w radiu od jakiejĹ posĹanki (osoby poselskiej pĹci ĹźeĹskiej), Ĺźe jest pomysĹ na ograniczenie (wzorem Australii) dostÄpu mĹodzieĹźy/dzieci do socjal mediĂłw. Bo (miÄdzy innymi) za duĹźo korzystajÄ ze sztucznej inteligencji, i dochodzi juĹź do nawiÄ zywania relacji, co nazywa siÄ ponoĹ sztucznÄ intymnoĹciÄ . Moim zdaniem - bzdura. Sztuczna intymnoĹÄ zaczÄĹa funkcjonowaÄ wtedy, kiedy ludzie zaczÄli korzystaÄ z tzw. portali randkowych. Czyli jakieĹ trzydzieĹci lat temu.:)
If youâre in the (WC)AG WG, consider to +1 this Call for Consensus on publishing WCAG-EM 2.0, a great update to a classic spec by @SteveFaulkner, @hdv and @JeroenHulscher.
I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world.
FWIW, I like the Debian model were the project leader is elected for one year at a time, by the electorate. For Debian that is the project members ("Debian Developer"), I don't know what that would be for curl? (Everyone with commit in the past year? Some self-perpeptuating board?)
@liw That arrangement requires a sort of constitution - a mission statement that cannot be changed. Otherwise, expect some random actor to sign up a thousand developers, then have them all vote for the same leader, then update the rules. Or change the license.
yeah, I'm more concerned with having something stale, stuck in the past, rather than a revolution. After all, everyone can already fork and take off at any given time if they really wanted
It is true, though. Dynamic analysis is nowadays the simplest way to find the actual implementation, and after a while you learn where things probably are. So many function pointers.
about a billion years so I needed a SHA256 function in Lua. Existing bindings to OpenSSL didnât cover it, so I set to add it. I was beaten back by waves of confusion (which apparently got worse, somehow??). In the end I bound to WolfSSL. Not as fast but actually designed to be embedded. It was like ten lines of C.
Ein Artikel ßber die Debatte zum Bßrgergeld. Ich mag den Beitrag. Vor allem, weil er von individuellen Schicksalen erzählt. Keine "Totalverweigerer", die vermeintlich lieber vom Staat leben. Sondern Menschen, die auf die ein oder andere Art nicht damit gerechnet haben jemals in diese Situation zu kommen.
Neue Regeln mit neuer Grundsicherung: Heute debattiert erstmals der Bundestag Ăźber die geplante Reform des BĂźrgergeldes. Drei Menschen, die davon leben mĂźssen, berichten von ihren Erfahrungen und Sorgen.
đŁ UnterstĂźtze den Zugang zum !@metalab fĂźr Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen đ ď¸ am Montag, 19. Jänner, Treffpunkt metalab um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8381⌠#a11y #make #blind #inklusion
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